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City Lit in Edgewater is winding up their 39th theatrical season pitching “Two Days in Court: A Double-Header of Classic One Acts.” The two one-acts played back-to-back are “The Devil and Daniel Webster” a soulful drama by Stephen Vincent Benet, and a farcical operetta “Trial …
Chicago has had a long relationship with reggae music most notably at clubs like the Wild Hare (formerly the Wild Hare and Singing Armadillo in Wrigleyville) now resurrected with food and drink near Halsted and Diversey, about a block south of Guitar Center. This release …
There’s plenty to like about this Broadway in Chicago road tour theatrical extravaganza loosely based on the true-life story of a woman claiming to be the surviving daughter of Czar Nicholas II of Russia.
Running now through April 7, 2019 at the Nederlander Theater on Randolph Street in Chicago.
Don’t worry, this version of “Anastasia” has little to do with reality. While it refers to the historical tragedy it is scrubbed clean of most of the ugly unwanted parts, leaving behind the tale of a young, beautiful, and strong heroine striving to find her true identity while struggling to come to terms with her inner princess.
You can listen to the entire audio review by clicking on the podcast above read it at ChicagoTheaterandArts.com.
This episode of Authors Showcase features author Barbara Barnett speaking about and reading from her novel “Apothecary’s Curse” set partly on the Chicago area and partly n Victorian London. Listen to the podcast above or watch the video recorded version below. The Chicago version …
This version of “A Bronx Tale” based on an off-Broadway one-man play by Chazz Palmintiri and later turned into the popular 1993 Robert De Niro movie of the same name has added music by Alan Menken and Lyrics by Glenn Slater to produce a very …
Review Summary: “The Choir of Man” at the Broadway Playhouse at Chicago’s Water Tower Place mall on Michigan Avenue is more boy band concert than Broadway musical. Featuring nine very energetic, vocally talented, male singers purported to be “regulars” at a traditional Irish Pub named “The Jungle,” that serves up 90 minutes of pop.
It is basically about 15 or so cover tunes written, recorded or popularized by Adele, Queen, Paul Simon, Katy Perry, Red Hot Chili Peppers, and others that everyone will find enjoyable and most will find familiar.
The musical extravaganza is loosely narrated by Denis Grindel who introduces his pub mates providing a bit of backstory about each as a way of establishing the iconic stereotypical characters we have probably encountered in every tavern and public house in the world.
Read the entire review at ChicagoTheaterandArts.com
Jodie Jacobs of ChicagoTheaterandArts.com and Reno Lovison of ChicagoBroadcastingNetwork.com got together to produce a podcast about the plays they reviewed in 2018. Including those plays they found to be intelligent and thought-provoking as well as those that were just fun and entertaining.
Bob (H.B. Ward) and Jennifer (Linda Reiter) Jones are surprised to meet their new neighbors, Pony (Cortney McKenna), and John ( Joseph Wiens) who also share the same last name. The two couples have an ongoing series of absurd conversations that actually do get to …
Chicago is home to approximately 150,000 individuals who identify as Asian. This February was the beginning of the Lunar New Year hailed as The Year of the Pig according to the Chinese Zodiac.
According to TheChineseZodiac.org, this is a great year to make money, and a good year to invest! 2019 is going to be full of joy, a year of friendship and love for all the zodiac signs; an auspicious year because the Pig attracts success in all the spheres of life.
The Chinatown neighborhood in Chicago is centered on Cermak and Wentworth Avenues, and is an example of one of the city’s many ethnic neighborhoods and is probably the most well known Asian ethnic community.
A section in Uptown on the northside near Argyle and Broadway is sometimes referred to as New Chinatown or the northside Chinatown. But this is something of a misnomer since the majority of Asians in this area are from South-East Asia, hence it is also known as Little Vietnam.
On February 9, 2019 the community celebrated the beginning of the Lunar New Year with a parade and parties.
Below is a video of highlights from The Lunar New Year Celebration at Furama Restaurant attended by about 300 people, including a number of political dignitaries, and hosted by the South-East Asia Center a not-for-profit organization that offers a number of programs for area children and seniors including a preschool, daycare, afterschool program, senior daycare, ESL Classes, and Golden Diners Program, as well as a number of social service assistance programs.
Until now I have generally dedicated one podcast to one review. In this episode, I thought I would do something a little different and talk about two plays I recently reviewed for ChicagoTheaterandArts.com. The first is “Dead Man’s Cell Phone” at the Greenhouse Theatre Center …
Until recently Rosalind Franklin had gone virtually un-credited for her contribution to the discovery revealing the structure of DNA to be a double helix. The discovery ultimately earned Franklin’s research colleague Maurice Wilkins and two rival collaborators James Watson and Francis Crick the Nobel Prize. “Photograph …
The Lyric Opera of Chicago is presenting an encore series through January 31, 2019 of its attractively updated version of Giacomo Puccini’s “La Boheme” directed by Richard Jones which launched the 2018/2019 season accompanied by the very capable Lyric Orchestra under the direction of Domingo Hindoyan.
Listen to our original production audio review here, at Spotify, iTunes or GooglePlay or read the review at ChicagoTheaterandArts.com.